May Blood, Baroness Blood

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May Blood, Baroness Blood MBE (born 26 May 1938) is a Labour member of the British House of Lords.

Blood was born and raised in Belfast and worked in a linen mill from 1952-90 then as a manager of Cairn Martin Wood Products from 1991-94. Since 1994, she has been an Information Officer of Greater Shankill Partnership Co. Ltd. and is a founding member of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition. In 1998, she was awarded an honorary DUniv from the University of Ulster and was awarded a life peerage as Baroness Blood, of Blackwatertown in the County of Armagh in 1999. She also received an honorary DUniv from the Queen's University of Belfast in 2000 and the Open University in 2001.